Author: Douglas Laycock

Douglas Laycock is the Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at The University of Michigan. He is a prolific scholar on religious liberty, other constitutional law issues, and the law of remedies. He is also an experienced appellate litigator, including in the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and of The University of Chicago Law School, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. He taught at The University of Chicago and The University of Texas at Austin. Anthony R. Picarello, Jr. is general counsel for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. He organized the conference documented in this volume over the course of 2005 while serving as Vice President and General Counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He has lectured extensively on religious freedom law, and has published articles in the First Amendment Law Review and the George Mason Law Review. In January 2007, Anthony was named to The American Lawyer magazine”s list of the top fifty litigators under age forty-five. Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Law Alumni Faculty Fellow and professor of law at Washington & Lee University, where her scholarship focuses on family law, children and violence, and healthcare law. She is the editor of three recent books, including Reconceiving the Family: Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute”s Principle of the Law of Family Dissolution (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Her work on family law and healthcare law has appeared in the Cornell Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the North Carolina Law Review, the San Diego Law Review, and the Washington & Lee Law Review.